Attachment for endless-carrier slats



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0. G. SMALLEY.

ATTACHMENT FOR ENDLESS-CARRIER SLATSP No. 391,280. Patented Oct. 16, 18-88.

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CLARENCE U. SMALLEY, OF MANlTOlVOO, \VISOONSIN.

ATTACHMENT FOR ENDLESS-CARRIER SLATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,280, dated October 16, 1888.

Application filed March 13, 1888.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE O. SMALLEY, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Manitowoc, in the county of Manitowoc and State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments to Endless-Carrier Slats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view of an endless carrier embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view, in perspective and on an enlarged scale, of one of the slats; Fig. 3, a detail view, in perspective, on an enlarged scale, of the end of one of the buckets, showing more clearly the construction of the link to which the slat is attached.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in endless carrier slats; and the object thereof is to provide an endless carrier which can be employed for elevating hay, straw, or other material in nearly a vertical direction without materially increasing the cost or weight of the endless carrier; and the invention therefore consists in the several details of construction, substaniially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the sides of the endless carrier, to the upper ends of which is journaled the shaft B, provided at its ends with sprocket-wheels 0, around which passes the sprocketchain D. The chain at the lower end of the endless carrier passes around similar sprocket-wheels, (not shown,) said wheels being mounted in like manner upon the ends of a shaft, a, which shaft has its bearings in the sides of the endless carr1er.

To the spocket-chains D are suitably connected the endless-carrier slats bin the following manner: The links of the chains are provided at suitable intervals with right-angle extensions or lugs 0, against which rest the slats, as shown, the ends thereof being cut away, as shown at d, to receive the links of the chain. Metal strips E are secured to the slats,

preferably by means of the bolts 0, which also secure the slats to the chain, said strips extending beyond the outer edge of the slats and curved, asshownin Fig. 2. ThestripsEat their ends are bent at aright angle to form flanges f, which serve as the ends of the bucket, and intermediate means may be employed with those of the bolts 6, as shown at g, to secure the strips to the slats.

It preferred, the strips or buckets E may be made in sections, as shown in the two lower slats in Fig. 1.

Near the upper ends of the strips or sides A of the endless carrier is pivoted a chute, F, the outer end of which is supported by the brace-rods G, only one of which is shown in the drawings, the other being upon the opposite side of the endless carrier. These rods are pivoted at one end to the sides of the chute, and the opposite ends of he rods are formed with elongated slots h, which engage the bolts 5 on the sides of the endless carrier, thereby enabling the chute to be adjusted according to the angle at which the endless carrier is set. This chute can be adjusted so that the out fodder can be deposited at different points in the bin or silo, as is desired-that is, when the silo is full on'one side or end by adjusting the chute F the filling of the silo can continue on the opposite side without moving or adjusting either the main carrier or the cutter.

This device is designed to be used more particularly in connection with feed-cutters, and is intended to be so combined therewith as to be adjustable at different angles in relation thereto to suit the purpose of the operator; but as neither the feed-cutter nor the mode of attachment thereto forms any part of the present invention they have not been illustrated in the drawings.

In order to guide the cutfced or ensilage onto the carrier as it falls from the delivery-spout of the cutter, I provide the bottom board, H, which board is pivoted to the sides of the endless carrier by means of the pins 3', engaging holes in the cars 7.. To one of the endless-carrier sides is secured the board I, which near its lower end is provided with a curved slot, Z, through which passes the projection or pin in upon the board H. The slot Z forms a guide for the pin m, and upon the extremity of the pin screw-threads may be formed to receive a nut for the purpose of holding the board in its adjusted position when set at the required angle 5 to accommodate itself to the angle at which the endless carrier is set, so that the feed will readily fall or slide into the endless carrier buckets. Any suitable or well-known means may be employed to hold the board in its ad- [0 justed position.

Motion is designed to be imparted to the endless carrier by means of suitable connection with the feed-cutter mechanism in any manner found best adapted to the purpose.

7 Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an endless carrier, the slats provided with buckets, in combination with the sprocket-chain and lugs formed on the links thereof,

and the bolts passing through the slats, buck- CLARENCE O. SMALLEY.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. B. BURNET, E. G. NASH. 

